1.The Evidence

Euripides composed around 90 plays in his fifty-year production
career (455–405 bce). The corpus of texts transmitted from
antiquity through the middle ages and into modern times includes
seventeen tragedies, one satyr-play (Cyclops), and a
further tragedy, Rhesus, which seems to have been confused
with Euripides' own play of that name. Some evidence survives for
another sixty plays, ranging from mere titles to quite substantial
text-fragments and other information. Fifty of these are tragedies
and only ten are satyr-plays, so the missing dozen may have
included more satyr-plays than tragedies. The sixty plays (together
with their production-dates, so far as these are known) are listed
at t…

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7212Euripides' fragmentary plays2Historical context notes are intended to give basic and preliminary information on a topic. In some cases they will be expanded into longer entries as the Literary Encyclopedia evolves.

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